KINGSFORD SMITH

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 306, 22 September 1934, Page 7

KINGSFORD SMITH

Non-Arrival of Certificate For Air Race Plane

PLANS IN JEOPARDY Melbourne, September 21. >■ A certificate iof airworthiness not having arrived for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s racing monoplane, Smithy has received a hint from the Civil Aviation headquarters that delicate international Complications may arise If h<- persists in leaving Australia for England next Tuesday, as he intended doing prior to its arrival. It has been- made clear to him that he is liable to restraint and his machine to detention by any country which is a signatory to the International Convention of Air Navigation.

TURKEY’S BAN >

Kingsford Smith and Mollison

(“Times” Cable.) Constantinople, September 20. . Subject to compliance with certain conditions, permission to fly over Turkey will doubtless be freely granted to air race competitors, except to airmen who have previously transgressed Turk ish regulations. Presumably Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr. J. A. Mollison will give Turkey a wide berth, as they have been forbidden to fly over it, after former landings and non-com-pliance with regulations. APPEAL TO KEMAL PASHA Sydney, September 21. ' Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has sent a cable to Mustapha Kemal Pasha seeking permission to fly qVer Turkey and apologising for any previous transgression. NON-STOP TO INDIA Sir Alan Cobham’s Venture (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September 20. Sir Alan Cobham and SquadronLeader Helmore will leave Portsmouth at dawn to-morrow on a 5200 miles nonstop flight to India in an ordinary commercial aeroplane of the Courier type, which wiU be refuelled in the air at four points en route. The flight is intended as a demonstration of the advantages of the air-refuelling system. Their machine will be refuelled from tanker aeroplanes above ' Portsmouth, Malta, Alexandria and Basra, the process taking only a minute or so, and by the time thus saved it is hoped to reach Karachi in 48 hours.

FLYING BOATS’ JOURNEY

(British Official Wireless.)

Rugby, September 20.

The Air Ministry has received information that the three Royal Air Force flying-boats which are on the way to Melbourne to take part in the centenary celebrations to-day flew from Singapore to Batavia, a distance of 510 miles.